Ben Maddow Net Worth is
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Ben Maddow (born August 7, 1909, Passaic, New Jersey - d. October 9, 1992, Los Angeles, California) was a prolific screenwriter and documentarian from the 1930s through the 70s. Educated at Columbia University, Maddow began his career working within the American documentary movement in the 30s.In 1936 he co-founded the short-lived left-wing newsreel The World Today. Under the pseudonym of David Wolff, Maddow co-wrote the screenplay to the Paul Strand–Leo Hurwitz documentary landmark, Native Land (1942).He earned his first feature screenplay credit with Framed (1947). Other screenplays include Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949, an adaptation of the William Faulkner novel), John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination), God's Little Acre (1958, an adaptation of the Erskine Caldwell novel officially credited to Philip Yordan), and, again with Huston, an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay) and The Unforgiven (1960).As a documentarian he directed and wrote such films as Storm of Strangers, The Stairs, and The Savage Eye (1959), which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award. Maddow made his solo feature directorial debut with the striking, offbeat feature An Affair of the Skin (1963), a well-acted story of several loves and friendships gone sour and marked by the rich characterisations which had distinguished his best screenplays.His final screenplay was for the horror melodrama The Mephisto Waltz (1970).
Date Of Birth | August 7, 1909 |
Died | 1992-10-09 |
Place Of Birth | Passaic, New Jersey, USA |
Profession | Writer, Producer, Director |
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1 | [on Philip Yordan, who signed several screenplays that Maddow claimed he had himself written]: Philip Yordan has never written more than a sentence in his life. He's incapable of writing. |
2 | [on John Huston] I think that Huston truly believed that vanity, vanity, all is vanity. But he practiced the vanities. |
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1 | American screenwriter, novelist and photography critic, educated at Columbia University. After graduating, he worked for three years as an orderly and technician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and for another three years as an investigator for the New York City Bureau of Welfare. During World War II, he worked as a scenarist for the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force. In feature films, he is best remembered for his collaboration with John Huston on the script of The Asphalt Jungle (1950). |
Writer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record | 1987 | TV Movie documentary | |
Man on a String | 1972 | TV Movie | |
The Mephisto Waltz | 1971 | | |
The Secret of Santa Vittoria | 1969 | writer | |
The Chairman | 1969 | screenplay | |
The Way West | 1967 | screenplay | |
Kraft Suspense Theatre | 1965 | TV Series story - 1 episode | |
Arrest and Trial | 1964 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
An Affair of the Skin | 1963 | writer | |
The Balcony | 1963 | writer | |
Naked City | 1962 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Two Loves | 1961 | screenplay | |
The Asphalt Jungle | 1961 | TV Series screenplay - 1 episode | |
The Savage Eye | 1960 | | |
The Untouchables | 1960 | TV Series written by - 2 episodes | |
The Unforgiven | 1960 | screenplay | |
Murder by Contract | 1958 | uncredited | |
God's Little Acre | 1958 | uncredited | |
No Down Payment | 1957 | screenplay - uncredited | |
Gun Glory | 1957 | uncredited | |
Men in War | 1957 | screenplay - front Philip Yordan | |
Johnny Guitar | 1954 | uncredited | |
The Naked Jungle | 1954 | screenplay - front Philip Yordan | |
The Wild One | 1953 | uncredited | |
Shadow in the Sky | 1952 | | |
The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | screen play | |
Intruder in the Dust | 1949 | writer | |
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands | 1948 | adaptation | |
The Man from Colorado | 1948 | screenplay | |
Framed | 1947 | screen play | |
Native Land | 1942 | as David Wolff | |
Valley Town | 1940 | Documentary assistant commentary - as David Wolff | |
China Strikes Back | 1937 | Documentary short unconfirmed - unconfirmed | |
Heart of Spain | 1937 | Documentary short | |
The People of the Cumberland | 1937 | Documentary short as David Wolff | |
Producer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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An Affair of the Skin | 1963 | producer | |
The Balcony | 1963 | producer | |
The Savage Eye | 1960 | producer | |
Director
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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An Affair of the Skin | 1963 | | |
The Savage Eye | 1960 | | |
Editor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Savage Eye | 1960 | | |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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American Masters | 1988 | TV Series documentary special thanks - 1 episode | |
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1960 | Flaherty Documentary Award | BAFTA Awards | | The Savage Eye (1960) |
1960 | Mannheim Film Ducat | Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival | | The Savage Eye (1960) |
1951 | Edgar | Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Best Motion Picture | The Asphalt Jungle (1950) |
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1964 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Written American Drama | The Balcony (1963) |
1951 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Screenplay | The Asphalt Jungle (1950) |
1951 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Screenplay | The Asphalt Jungle (1950) |
1951 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Written American Drama | The Asphalt Jungle (1950) |
1951 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | The Robert Meltzer Award (Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene) | The Asphalt Jungle (1950) |
1950 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Written American Drama | Intruder in the Dust (1949) |
1950 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | The Robert Meltzer Award (Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene) | Intruder in the Dust (1949) |
1949 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Written American Western | The Man from Colorado (1948) |